Chiezō Kataoka Movies

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case...

Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.

Chiezo Kataoka plays a cowardly samurai, whose honor is on the line when it becomes necessary to avenge the murder of his father. The culminating...

A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.

Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death.

This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As...

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

The investigative unit of the Metropolitan Police Department organized a special investigative team to uncover a series of frequent gang robberies...

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

Chogoro, the young master of a rice shop who receives sword lessons from Tetsusaburo Yamaoka, travels to the lawless Kanbei Onigawara family from...

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.